saturn

I separated a pup from the mother and found a nasty little surprise. Something has made a hole in the base of the pup's pseudostem, right at the soil line. It is almost 0.5" in diameter, but goes only a little bit into and up the pseudostem. I could not find whatever made this hole, and there were no fecal pellets left behind. I am stumped.

The problem is that the emerging leaf is dead. There are a couple of tiny buds (or whatever they are called), so there are some pups on the way. But I am concerned about the damage on the existing p-stem, and the possibility of rot. I would be tempted to cut back the existing p-stem, but the damage is *right* at the soil line.

saturn

pitangadiego

Just let them all be.

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found what we call cutworms around our nanner trees over the summer,they will chew plant off at the ground. they catipillars that are green with black triangles on their backs, they got a size 12 applied to them

Dan

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Saturn,

This is part of a post I did regarding holes in the p-stem. You need to find that critter or he will eat out the corm and make its' way to the pups. Keep on excavating.

"Before applying mega bug juice, I took a scalpel to the Maurelii. Excavating outer layers at a time - cutting vertical slits until the head of a 2 inch long caterpillar type thingie emerged, crawling its' way out of the central core. Yanked it out with tweezers and now have found the culprit!!! Green with striped flanks -- tossed him onto the deck and stomped him good.

Florida has more critters than one can believe. It made a bore hole thru the wall of an internal leaf stalk and was chomping on the newly sprouting leaf. It also left a trail of what I can only describe as bug poop in it's wake. I mean a lot!"

Dan

The SR had only s-mites, and after a spray of Oganocide should be OK - we'll see.

Folks --- I am starting to believe that when you recieve a plant thru the mail the best thing to do is stick it in the ground immediately. And that means not inside the pool enclosure in a pot. Outside the lizzards and other benificial critters of the wild outdoors can can control any unforseen problems right away.